Psychological Profile and Social Behaviors of Patients with Hyperacusis

• Published in: Journal of clinical medicine Vol. 11; no. 24; p. 7317
• Main Authors: Sacchetto, Luca, Apa, Enrico, Ciorba, Andrea, Palma, Silvia, Caragli, Valeria, Gherpelli, Chiara, Monzani, Daniele, Genovese, Elisabetta, Nocini, Riccardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 09.12.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Anxiety; Audiometry; Clinical medicine; Hearing loss; Likert scale; Migraine; Patients; Perceptions; Questionnaires; Sound; Tinnitus; anxiety; hyperacusis; hearing loss; social phobia; somatization

Increased noise sensitivity refers to the abnormal subjective response to external sounds, with a prevalence of between 8% and 15.2% in the adult population as suggested by epidemiological studies. The basic neural mechanism of hyperacusis still remains obscure, so therapies for this often-devastati...